Chapter 925: Ji Ling Withdraws His Troops

After everyone understood what he meant, Huang Zhongcai continued: "The second is to shock Yuan Shu's army and let Ji Ling know that the army's reinforcements have arrived, so that he will not dare to attack Yulou County with all his strength. This will reduce the pressure on the Lord's army."

As soon as Huang Zhong finished speaking, Kong Xin couldn't wait to get up and ask for orders: "General Huang, I have not asked for orders to lead the troops into battle!"

Huang Zhong looked at Kong Xin and said with a smile: "General Kong, please wait a moment. I will make arrangements for the expedition of troops and horses later. General Kong has only trained his troops and horses for more than a month, and it is not yet appropriate to go on an expedition. To be on the safe side, I suggest that the general first Train with peace of mind and then lead the troops into battle in half a year.”

Seeing the disappointment on Kong Xin's face, Huang Zhong continued: "Besides, after I send out troops, Geyang's troops may be slightly insufficient, and General Ye Kong will need to lead five thousand warriors to defend."

Kong Xin also knew that his troops had not yet been trained, so he had no choice but to retreat.

Huang Zhong continued: "Along the way, a certain person has been thinking about the issue of reinforcements. After thinking about it again and again, he decided that I would personally lead 20,000 Runan garrison troops, plus 5,000 troops from General Han Siam, and also from Ge. Yang mobilized 5,000 garrison troops and sent out a total of 30,000 troops. At the same time, he recruited 10,000 civilian craftsmen from Geyang, carrying provisions for ten days, and set up camp on the west bank of the Guanhe River while waiting for the follow-up reinforcements to gather. "

As for the defense issues in Huainan, Huang Zhong's arrangement was to transfer Kong Xin's Qin warriors to Geyang to take charge of Geyang's defense issues. Wang Ran waited for the follow-up reinforcements to arrive, and then came with the reinforcements to join Huang Zhong's troops.

In addition to Kong Xin's five thousand Qin warriors, there are also two schools of garrison troops and one school of combat cavalry in Geyang City. The infantry of the three schools were arranged to defend the city, while the cavalry also needed to guard the baggage convoy and transport food and grass to Huang Zhong's tribe. Also, after Han Xian's troops were transferred out, the Huainan camp's defense force only had one school of garrison troops. However, Huang Zhong felt that there was no problem with five thousand soldiers guarding the pontoon bridge.

As for the other cities, there are now about 3,000 garrison troops. With Geyang's 20,000 troops in front, there should be no problem in the three cities behind.

Of course, for the safety of the cities in Huainan, Huang Zhong used the thousand cavalry who escorted him back as a scout team. The thousand cavalry were divided into ten teams and patrolled the area east of Geyang day and night. Once an abnormality was discovered, It will soon be fed back to Geyang guard Kong Xin.

Moreover, in Huang Zhong's view, since the main forces of Ji Ling and Yuan Shu's army have already appeared in Anfeng, it is not very likely that Qisi and Miao County will have large armies to attack. Of course, the necessary vigilance is It must be there, so the defense of Geyang City still has 20,000 troops, just in case.

Huang Zhong's strategy was unanimously recognized by everyone, and then Huang Zhong discussed it with everyone and perfected some details. After repeated confirmation, Huang Zhong ordered everyone to start doing their own thing. Han Xian immediately rushed back to the Huainan camp and led five thousand soldiers from the war camp to join Huang Zhong. Wang Ran immediately recruited civilian craftsmen to prepare food and fodder for the army. Huang Zhong went to the military camp and became familiar with the generals at all levels who guarded Runan's 20,000 troops.

In the afternoon of that day, Wang Ran had already prepared all the personnel and supplies for the expedition. By evening, Han Xian also led five thousand soldiers to join him. Thirty thousand troops and ten thousand civilian craftsmen had all gathered.

Early the next morning, 40,000 troops marched toward the west bank of the irrigation water, guarding a large amount of baggage. It took the army a day and a half to finally reach the west bank of the irrigation water. Huang Zhong ordered the army to set up camp on the west bank. While setting up camp, he ordered the civilians and craftsmen to start preparing the materials needed to cross the river and build a bridge tomorrow.

When the army crossed the river, a total of four pontoon bridges were erected. However, when the army was surrounded, they were all damaged by Ji Ling's troops. Huang Zhong planned to repair the four bridges in their original positions, because when Ji Lingjun destroyed the pontoon bridge, he only destroyed the bridge deck and then cut off the iron cables that held the pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge took less than half a day to be repaired. Then, Huang Zhong immediately ordered Han Siam to lead his troops across the river and set up camp again on the east bank, guarding both ends of the pontoon bridge to prevent Ji Ling's army from raiding the pontoon bridge.

A few days later,

Yingchuan reinforcements and Chen Guo reinforcements rushed to join Huang Zhong's troops. At this time, it was already the eighth day that Ji Ling led his troops to attack Yulou County. Although Huang Zhong knew that Yulou's defense was still strong, he did not stay any longer. After arranging 10,000 defenders to defend the irrigation pontoon and camp, he led an army of 90,000 to continue southward to support the defenders of Yulou and relieve the siege of Yulou.

After receiving the news of the arrival of reinforcements from the Andong Army, Ji Ling immediately ordered the army to retreat without any delay. He led the army to retreat to Liao County, and even Anfeng gave up.

After eight days of attack, Ji Ling could only sigh with relief after losing more than 10,000 soldiers. Although he dispatched elite troops several times during this period, he still failed to gain an advantage at the top of the city. Especially a few days ago, Ji Ling had received news that tens of thousands of troops had re-erected a pontoon bridge over the irrigation water. Although some generals proposed to send troops to raid the reinforcements, Ji Ling rejected it because he already knew that the commander of the reinforcements The general turned out to be Huang Zhong.

He and Huang Zhong have fought many times, and it can be said that he knows Huang Zhong relatively well. If someone else leads the army, Ji Ling may have other ideas, but Huang Zhong is the most stable general under Huangfu Chaobo, so Ji Ling Ling didn't think he had much chance of succeeding in a sneak attack.

In eight days, Ji Ling lost 15,000 soldiers under Yulou City, while the loss of An Dong Army was less than 3,000. Of course, the loss of Ji Ling's army was mainly new recruits, and the loss of elite soldiers was less than 3,000. However, although he lost 15,000 soldiers, Ji Ling used these eight days to reorganize his tens of thousands of troops again, retraining 30,000 heavy armored infantry and 30,000 combat battalions, and the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers have reached the level of advanced arms.

Three days later, Huang Zhong finally led the army to the outside of Yulou City. After the two armies joined forces, Huang Zhong immediately sent 20,000 troops to take over Anfeng County, which Ji Ling's army had abandoned.

So far, after nearly a month, the war between Anfeng and Yulou finally ended, and the final result was as many people hoped: both sides suffered losses.

After losing tens of thousands of troops, the Anton Army coalition finally succeeded in capturing the two counties, but suffered heavy casualties and nearly annihilated the 120,000-man army.

After losing tens of thousands of troops, the Ji Ling Army eventually failed to completely destroy the Anton Army coalition, and the two counties were eventually captured. However, the tens of thousands of troops were exchanged for the destruction of tens of thousands of the coalition army and the speed of the coalition's attack on Lujiang.